- They say all politics is local – we think not everywhere or all the time
- What is true is that you can’t win without candidates
- We are enthusiastically for write-in candidates Hannah Doyle and James Quinn for the Davenport School Board. We support that you hold your nose and vote for Potts as the third person for the open seats in that race.
Polls are closing soon, if you have not done so please drop everything and hurry to your precinct voting place and if you are from Davenport, Walcott, Blue Grass or Buffalo mark the oval and write in candidates Hanna Doyle and James Quinn for Davenport School Board. A sound argument is made for also marking the oval for candidate Bruce Potts. We have discussed that a win for Hanna Doyle and James Quinn would be huge as write-in candidates. Including incumbent Potts is more conventional – to fill out the third candidate of the three positions open with the lesser of evils among the remaining.
Potts as we have mentioned was one of only two members to oppose the sale of Lincoln School for the give away price received. But he has hedged on mask mandates to the extent that we have little confidence in his reasoning ability on the matter beyond knee-jerk submission to liberal agenda driven elitist bureaucracies, or , and this could be redeeming, his perception of where the wind blows on the matter. So we cast our vote for Potts but he should well realize that it is a hold-your-nose-and-vote situation. He has no mandate for anything other than that he is hopefully better that the likes of Allison Beck who is on the ballot, and especially being championed by the usual suspects.
Beck voted for the giveaway of Lincoln School, supports mask mandates for preschool and has her head so far up the bureaucracies butts spouting ruinous jargon that translates to extreme liberal policies. We feel Potts will benefit from some educrat vote but whether or not he realizes it, will be riding largely on what the Freedom to Choose Campaign — the PAC behind write-in candidates Hannah Doyle and James Quinn produce for him — operatives of which are passing the word to support Potts. Hopefully when elected he will be something more than “not Allison Beck”.
We think that just about any local level candidates who make a large part of their campaign about resistance to federal and bureacratic edicts (the essence of the Freedom to Choose campaign) the cultural malaise and about restoring American vibrancy and greatness everywhere — starting right here in river city — would do very well and many would prevail against any liberal incumbent advantages and the bias of local media.
Some perhaps unconsciously are doing that — by running as conservative Trump supporting Republicans in various states. We look forward particularly to what transpires in the Virginia Governor race. In Iowa, around here the elections are for municipal and school board races. The elections here are supposedly non-partisan. But it is our belief that candidates running unabashedly as cultural conservatives, and many are across the state, or on key issues that resonate with people concerned about where the culture is going, can carry the day and will if they are vigorous and have some resources (like Freedom to Choose Campaign) to get the word out.
We are hopeful that this could be a very good day although returns for elections with extensive votes for write-in candidates will be delayed.
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We have little to say about the municipal races locally – vote for any Republicans when they own up to it. That leaves the Davenport mayoral race out – we wrote in Phillip Yerrington who is not even running but who did well as a write-in candidate on no budget a few years ago against Bill Gluba when Republicans produced no one. Same is true this year.
